Quotes About Self-control

One cannot both feast and become rich.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Think much, speak little, and write less.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.

Vrijeme je da se pre?e na dostizanje višeg stupnja, a to je: unutarnja šutnja. Što vrijedi što mudro držimo jezik za zubima, ako u nama još sve vrije od oštrih sudova i brzopletih replika koje ne pokre?u naš jezik i ne prelaze preko usana, ali potresaju i paraju našu unutrašnjost?

So instead of sucking back some liquid sanity, he smoked the hand rolled down. Then he flicked the stub into the cold fireplace, closed his eyes and cursed three times…

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.'   Emotions

And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters. The waters, he said, were not receptive. If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

That's a lot of vegetables. It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl... He lifted the silver lid on another plate, revealed a small pizza, with pepperoni arranged into a smiley face. She tried to give him a stony stare, but the laugh won out. You think you're cute, don't you, pal? Adorable. In this case, you can have adorable. Ow! She managed the stony stare when he slapped her hand away from the pizza. Vegetables first.

Give her a cooey-dooey—" "Mavis!" "What?" "Mavis, I'm saying this for your own good. You have to stop the insanity. You sound like a moron." "I know." Mavis's eyes, currently purple, rolled. "I can hear myself, but I can't stop. It's like a drug. So

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

Devina] "You know, Adrian, you ever get bored with being a Goody Two-shoes, you could come over to my side." "Because you have cookies, right." Those black eyes returned to his own. "And so much more." "Well, I'm on a diet. Sorry—but thanks for the invite.

I do not crave this But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.

Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the back yard, they actually listened to you.

Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully—in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland had opened up full-bore and was pumping enough OMG into his system that he was drowning in terror.

He willed his hands to be steady by vowing to saw them off if they embarrassed him.

After all, what kind of fun would it be if you could easily avoid your inner hand grenade?

Not now, she told her damn libido. After three years of not noticing anything of the opposite sex, now was absolutely, positively not the time to get back on that train. And he was not the right male, at any rate. And goddamn it, she was not that kind of a female— The male had an ass that went on for days. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays.

Keep your hands to yourself, Adrian." God knew the angel seemed willing to fuck anything that moved—which made you wonder if not moving would be a rate-limiting step for him. With a curse, Adrian went all holier-than-thou. "I only touch if they ask." "What a relief." "But you know, reanimation is possible.

Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope.

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the 'kick'.